Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
AGNES DE MILLEWhen I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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Find the passion. It takes great passion and great energy to do anything creative. I would go so far as to say you can’t do it without that passion.
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So that we don’t go mad in the leisure, we have color TV. So that there will never, never, be a moment of silence, we have radio and Muzak.
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If you want to understand a nation, look at its dances and listen to its folk songs – don’t pay any attention to its politicians.
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They are just a lot of isolated individuals jiggling in a kind of self-hypnosis and dancing with others only to remind themselves that we are not completely alone in this world.
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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind.
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Theater people are always pining and agonizing because they’re afraid that they’ll be forgotten. And in America they’re quite right. They will be.
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One of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people
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Destiny is made known silently.
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The acrobat is lost in a web of muscles the dancer is all but invisible in projected idea.
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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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